Morning Glories: Tomato Lost, Tomatoes Found

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"It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day." Marion Cran
"When in the fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness." Celia Thaxter
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." Cicero
"He who owns a garden, However small it be, Whose hands have planted in it Flower or bush or tree; He who watches patiently The growth from nurtured sod, Who thrills at newly opened bloom Is very close to God." Katherine Edelman
"Like a big mountain, a small garden stimulates, restores, and delights us, just as it poses challenges, promotes mastery, provides exercise and relieves monotony." Winifred Gallagher
"Though an old man I am but a young gardener." Thomas Jefferson
"A garden is never so good as it will be next year." Thomas Cooper
"Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas." Eizabeth Murray
"God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done." Author Unknown

After three days of solid rain, this was a check-up morning.
There was good news and bad news.

TOMATO LOST

One of the five tiny green Small Fry cherry tomatoes
was struck from the stem and lying in the dirt:

I'll "harvest" it and see if it ripens indoors.

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TOMATOES FOUND

As if to counter that small but tender loss, the Mortgage Lifter plant
showed off its first two tomatoes of the season:

New_tomatoes1

I had been about to give up on the Mortgage Lifter,
thinking it wasn't going to produce anything.
Patience (and lots of rain) pays off!